My Geeky Bucket List

A couple of years ago, I was watching a documentary on Carl Sagan discussing the cosmos, and it occurred to me that I really was just a mere spec in the universe, that there were so many things I didn’t understand, and so many experiences I hadn’t had. Most importantly, it made me realise that I had led such a sheltered life up to that point; this needed to change. From that point onwards, I started compiling quite a substantial bucket list, and to this day have around 500 things I want to visit, experience or learn. I’ve since split it into sections. This is my Geeky Bucket list.

1. Visit Area 51
2. Search for UFOs in Roswell
3. See a Meteor Crater
4. Go Vampire Hunting in Whitby
5. Visit Dracula’s Castle in Transylvania
6. See the Superman Statue in Metropolis, Illinois
7. Visit Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters
8. Visit the Ghostbusters Headquarters
9. Watch SFX Top 50 Superhero Movies
10. Read every Discworld Book by Terry Pratchett
11. Solve a Rubiks Cube
12. Build a Rube Goldberg Machine
13. Finish a 10,000+ Piece Jigsaw
14. Visit Rancho Obi Wan
15. See the Yoda Fountain at Lucasfilms
16. Ride a Segway
17. Ride a Hoverboard
18. Go Jetpacking
19. Visit Hobbiton
20. Visit Mordor
21. Learn the Major Star Constellations
22. Go to San Diego Comic Con
23. Go to E3
24. Be part of a Zombie Survival Game
25. Survive a Zombie Survival Game
26. Prepare for the Apocalypse – Shoot a gun at a Shooting Range
26. Rival Katniss – Learn Archery
28. Become a ninja – Learn a Martial Art
29. Stargaze at a Dark Sky Reserve
30. Watch a Meteor Shower
31. Wish on a Shooting Star
32. Spend a day Exploring the Smithsonian Museums
33. Watch a Shakespearian Play at the Globe Theatre
34. Learn to play Chess
35. Learn to play Poker
36. Watch a Space Shuttle Launch
37. Experience Weightlessness
38. Order a Martini, Shaken not Stirred
39. Read the 100 best novels of all time
40. Watch the 100 best movies of all time
41. Find P.Sherman, 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney
42. Visit Hogsmede
43. Visit Diagon Alley
44. Go to Platform 9 3/4
45. Drink Butterbeer
46. Go to every Disney park in the world
47. Visit a Fortune Teller
48. Visit Riverside, Iowa, the future birthplace of Captain James T Kirk
49. Stay at the Hotel Sidi Driss, Tunisia – Luke Skywalkers childhood home
50. Try to find your Mutant Powers – Visit Chernobyl
51. Channel your inner Tarzan – Rope Swing and Zipline
52. Adopt an Accent for an entire day
53. Watch 24 hours of 24
54. Watch every episode of Pokemon
55. Watch every episode of Doctor Who
56. Watch a Flash Mob
57. Be part of a Flash Mob
58. Learn how to pick a lock
59. Play a game of Dungeons and Dragons
60. Go on a Bigfoot Expedition in the Pacific Northwest
61. Go to Salem for Halloween
62. Visit Team Americas Headquarters – Mount Rushmore
63. Go Mario Karting
64. Go Wakey Racing
65. Ride the Zero Gravity Vomit Comet
66. Go on a Dinosaur Dig
67. Read the top 100 Science Fiction novels
68. Have a non stop Star Wars Marathon
69. Have a non stop LOTR/Hobbit Marathon
70. Take a night tour of Alcatraz
71. Eat at the Heart Attack Grill
72. Complete an Epic Meal Time Challenge
73. Go to a Renaissance Fair
74. Learn to joust
75. Become a Comic Book Character
76. Become an Action Figure
77. Learn a Magic Trick
78. Learn how to fold 10 different Origami’s
79. Cosplay at an event
80. Play Laser Quest
81. Go Paintballing
82. Visit Jay and Silent Bobs Secret Stash
83. Visit the pub from Shaun of the Dead
84. Do the Worlds End Pub Crawl
85. Drink Duff Beer at Moe’s Tavern
86. Go to the Cinema in an appropriate costume
87. Got to a midnight screening at the cinema
88. Visit a film set
89. Be an extra in a movie
90. Track down a Geocache
91. Learn a language
92. Learn Sign Language
93. Learn the Phonetic Alphabet
94. Become a Pokemon master – Catch ’em all
95. Become a Jedi Knight
96. Solve a mystery like Sherlock Holmes
97. Learn to fly – Base Jump
98. Meet one of my Geeky Icons
99. Start a Geeky Blog
100. Time Travel